ArticleBMC public health2025
Women's healthcare needs and access across the incarceration pathway in Israel: a qualitative study.
Article in BMC public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundWithin punitive, under-resourced, and male-dominated incarceration systems, the healthcare needs of incarcerated women are often overlooked and inadequately addressed. This study aimed to explore the healthcare needs and access to care among formerly incarcerated women in Israel.
methodsWe employed an exploratory-descriptive qualitative design, and interviews were conducted with eighteen formerly incarcerated women, purposively recruited from the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority in Israel. Data were analyzed inductively using thematic analysis.
resultsWe group our findings into three overarching themes, representing the time-points illustrated by the participants: before incarceration, during incarceration, and after release from prison. Our themes illustrate the complex physical and mental health needs of formerly incarcerated women in Israel, perceived impact of incarceration on health, challenges faced by women with disabilities, discontinuity of care across stages of incarceration, mistrust in the prison medical system, systemic barriers to accessing timely and appropriate healthcare, and post-release support.
conclusionsThis study emphasizes the urgent need for a trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and continuity-based approach to healthcare within carceral settings. Our findings support the need for integration of prison health services into the national health system and call for system-wide, cross-sectoral, and human rights-based policy frameworks that promote prevention, rehabilitation, and adequate mental and physical healthcare in prison. Integrating prison healthcare within the broader national health system is crucial for reducing health inequalities by improving continuity of care, transparency, and the effective sharing and reporting of health information.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.